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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Growing Up: Here and There, D-Day and All That, and Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was each soldier's ration of cigarettes?
(a) A pack a week.
(b) A carton a week.
(c) A pack a day.
(d) A carton a day.

2. What did people in Paducah burn in a bonfire?
(a) All their Japanese products.
(b) All their German products.
(c) Posters of Hitler.
(d) Emperor Hirohito's effigy.

3. What did first-generation Japanese parents mean when they taught their children, gaman?
(a) Enjoy.
(b) Learn.
(c) Perservere.
(d) Understand.

4. What right for ex-felons did John Abbott win in the Supreme Court?
(a) The right to gather in meetings.
(b) The right to marry.
(c) The right to work for federal agencies.
(d) The right to vote.

5. What is a dogfight?
(a) Two airplanes firing at each other.
(b) Hand-to-hand combat.
(c) Infantry warfare.
(d) Bombing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the Japanese overseers get angry if the American prisoners killed a snake?

2. Why did Peter Bezich's son go to prison?

3. Why did MacArthur land twice when returning to the Philippines?

4. Where was Robert Rasmus when the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima?

5. What does the classification 4E mean to a soldier?

(see the answer key)

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